Goodbye, New York, California and Illinois

Re:Goodbye, New York, California and Illinois – Hello where? by BurningFrog on Friday January 17, 2020 @05:34PM (#22080261)

Actually one of the things I miss the most in the Bay Area is conservatives. I don't know a single one that's out of the closet!

To me, that's really really broken.

I'd love to live somewhere "purple", where people of all opinions coexist peacefully. Do places like that still exist?

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Re:Goodbye, New York, California and Illinois – Hello where? by burlesona on Friday January 17, 2020 @10:30PM (#22082065)

I lived in Raleigh, NC for a while, and I found it very "purple" with people mostly coexisting amicably. I've been gone a while so I don't know if that aspect of things has changed, but it's a very nice place to live, so well worth checking out :)

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Re:Goodbye, New York, California and Illinois – Hello where? by lazerpants on Friday January 17, 2020 @08:45PM (#22081578)

Anecdotally, Denver and Austin were both pretty laissez-faire prior to the demographic shifts of the past 10 years.

I would guess Vermont, NH, or Maine still may have places with the same purple politics.

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Re:Goodbye, New York, California and Illinois – Hello where? by stevenwoo on Friday January 17, 2020 @07:58PM (#22081373)

I worked one day a week in an office in San Jose and a guy wore his MAGA hat to work the day after Trump won in 2016, he got about 25% of the vote in Santa Clara county so plenty of them here. There are also a few Trump emblazoned trucks/houses if you happen to spend much time in rural areas outside of San Jose/San Francisco. Also, my local little town newspaper had a front page story about a couple that were GOP supporters that went to the Trump inauguration.

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